unconventional optometry

The Unconventional Optometrist: Creating Special Effects in Hollywood

If you’ve seen a movie in the last fifty years or so, chances are you witnessed the work of an optometrist and you didn’t even know it. Dr. Morton Greenspoon of Professional VisionCare Associates in Sherman Oaks, California, is a contact lens specialist and a consultant to the major film studios [1]. He is a …

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The Unconventional Optometrist: The First Deaf Optometrist in America

Did you know that approximately 10  percent of Americans have hearing loss, making it the second most common disability in the United States?1  In Canada, there are 50 percent more people with reported hearing loss than those with vision problems.2  Hearing loss has many causes, including genetics, age, and injury.  There are a number of disorders that …

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The Unconventional Optometrist: Optometry in NASA Space Medicine

I am a big proponent of space exploration and I’ve always been interested in astronomy and everything you see in sci-fi movies.  If I could, I would be an astronaut myself, but the closest I ever got was getting a telescope at age 9 and joining my alma mater’s Space Society.  So, it was no …

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